the economy's upside down down right now. we're in negative growth this last quarter. >> it's really a bad idea right now to do this thing. and also as they were saying, it's deliberately written i guess to make it ridiculous so that you can't say let's take out one of our stupid tank programs we don't need. you can't do that. >> but that doesn't seem to be inspiring action. i mean, i asked what are they -- what's the alternative? i'm sure that they've been working with members of congress to come up with an alternative to this. i didn't -- i hear, oh, there should be one. >> yeah. >> but i don't hear any. >> well, i've got to say," you know, a lot of people, mike barnicle, attacked the president and congress for not working together, but they did come up with a plan that would have been remarkably stupid to an act as a worst-case scenario, and they worked together to create that fail safe plan and they're going to implement it. >> but the part that i don't understand, mike, you talk about the republicans saying, well, this t